We imagine the students will shout and murmur over these walls where hang most of the seeds of Modernism. Never before has there been gathered in this country so vast a display. Certainly there are ...

Dangerously Modern, on now at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, marks an exciting new chapter in the project of reclaiming forgotten women artists.

Compared to other literary forms, dramatic literature is more comprehensive, more complex, and more distinctive. Its ...

As one of Europe’s leading research universities, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich is committed to the highest international standards of excellence in research and teaching. Building on ...

A semester that concluded with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ speech at Commencement also saw the launch of a major online resource for Greek literature that was largely developed at Boston ...

Pablo Picasso, co-inventor of Cubism and a titan of the 20th century, excelled at many things: painting, sculpting, ceramics, printmaking, and even theatrical design. And those aren’t even all the art ...

Our poetry editor recommends collections that revel in nature, family life, hard work and language. By Gregory Cowles If we’re being honest here, a true starter pack of modern American poetry would ...

In December 1990, poet Cornelius Eady, now 71, was feeling dispirited by the literary world. He’d attended the Assn. of Writers & Writing Programs conference in Denver that year and felt like he was ...

When he was asked how Paul Cézanne influenced his work, Picasso declared: “He is the father of us all, a sort of God of painting.” This admiration was shared by Picasso’s coeval Cubist-in-arms, ...

PERSON, PLACE AND THING—Karl Jay Shapiro—Reynal & Hitchcock ($2). BLOOD FOR A STRANGER—Randall Jarrell—Harcourt, Brace ($2). Modernist poetry constitutes, in its entirety, a piecemeal bible of human ...